Friday, January 15, 2010

Friday Fuckwit and I couldn't spell 'mweeeeeee" so I said it

Friday already? Holy Moley . . where did the week go? We've had heat, rain, a cool change and now a comfortable but muggy evening with the gentle chirrup of crickets, the intermittent buzz of cicadas and the constant whine of mosquitoes and so . . tonight's Friday Fuckwit is dedicated to that most useless of insects, the one invented solely for population control with virtually no virtue and one that has been keeping me awake at night . . regularly . . .often and interrupting my otherwise erotic dreams.

Wishing you all a safe and wonderful weekend. Spare a thought for those souls lost and struggling in Haiti and give if you can. Dreadful times for a people poor enough without such tragedy. Count your blessings. I know I am.

Oh Good Morning My Pretty! You are so politically incorrect today for ragging on our dear friends the mosquitoes!Hah! They feed the toads and the frogs and they are living creatures too, with feelings, as our dear environmentalist friends would tell you.

I hate them! Down here which is actually up here for you, we have trucks spraying the streets with deadly gas hoping to kill the mosquitoes but unfortunately, they kills everything else but not the skeeters. Oh um, what a seductive voice. No wonder the mosquitoes hover.

They say that high-pitched drone of the mosquito is the sound ringing in the guy's head when he loads the shotgun and walks into the office taking out as many people as possible. That makes perfect sense!

And I'm with Jeff - Pat Robertson earned his place as my Friday Fuckwit, too.

HeyI didn't imagine your speech and voice like this.I got 5 to my Cambridge proficiency exam with 71% average (reading 68%, use of English 48%, listening 64%, speaking 85%, writing 90%). I use speaking and writing the most in life so it is not bad.

Being the great animal lover that I am, I would love to stick up for the poor, much maligned mosquito, but nope, I can't do it. I really can't think of a good thing to say about them. Wasps pollinate flowers and help control insect pests in your gardens, but mosquitoes - well, I would have to rank them along with ticks and lice. Not really good for anything.

quite the lovely rant, on maligning that lovely creature, the mosquito...responsible for more deaths than all the world's despots combined...how about some netting? Might keep all the creepy crawlies out, but probably the dog would tear it down...

I tried to find a 'badge' to put on the sidebar Darlene but I was in a bit of a rush. I'll see if I can find something today. They are indeed a great cause.

Really Roy? God I can imagine, one can only take so many thwacks to the side of the head. Hmm . . perhaps we should all make little Robertson effigies and stick pins in them.

Thanks Kate, you too.

Well there you go Ropi. Not sure what you did imagine but I hope it was a pleasant surprise. Congratulations again, you're knocking them dead with these scores. 90% is awesome. The sample questions would have a native speaker struggling frankly, well done.

Hmm he's certainly the world's most hated at this point in time Janice. Over here he's not getting much air time. He's been written off as another right wing Christian ratbag.

Well if sci fi is your kind of thing Mim, you'll enjoy it I'm sure. We certainly did. Predictable plot but lovely effects.

Hahah . . Debbie I was so waiting to here what you said about Mozzies. Nice to have an 'expert' confirm my useless theory. I swear, they're just here to compliment viruses as population control. I mean even our dogs have to be regularly vaccinated against them to prevent heart worm!

I did have a pretty mozzie net once Tom, I think it was sliced up for some fancy dress outfit and I never replaced it. Not a bad idea though. Then I could shut the doors!

Hahaha! Yes, I know that neurosis-inducing whine all too well. When we were in NZ, I swelled up like .. a swollen thing .. every time one of the damn things bit me. And they bit me often. If only one person in the room was bitten, that was me. I seem to be super attractive to the little bastards.

By the time we left, the bites were swelling so much I'd limp. Last one I had was the size of a tea plate.

What use are they? Hmm. They provide food for fishes and bats, frogs and birds. They help those interesting diseases to move house. Um.

P.S. Flyspray or some other insect killer. Half an hour before you go to bed spray the entire room and shut the door. By the time you go to bed the smell will be (mostly) gone and the little suckers will be dead.

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